Investigators Question CSX Transportation About April's Amtrak Derailment
May 17, 2002
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported yesterday that faulty maintenance conducted by CSX Transportation may have contributed to last month's Amtrak crash in Florida. A spokesperson for the NTSB said in the months before the accident, CSX, which owns and maintains the tracks just south of Crescent City, was having trouble keeping enough gravel beneath a stretch of track where the derailment took place. As a result, the tracks may have become misaligned, which the engineer of the train reported seeing. The NTSB, though, says it is too early in the investigation to officially report a cause of the accident. Four people were killed and close to 160 others were injured on April 18 when the Amtrak Auto Train derailed.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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